Thelma, good morning. Need to ask a favor. I must have deleted your message with the Sharp and Rice Lines. Could you resend this History. Sorry for the inconveniences. I some times have too many thumbs. Harry Sharp Thelma Nation wrote: > There is some very good information on the Sharps in Union Co., Tn. My husband's Sharp ancestors settled in Bold Valley. A lot of information on Sharp in a book, "To Loy's Cross Roads" I think you can order this book from Union County Historical Society. I got mine from there. Very interesting history of the area, including the Sharps. > Thelma Nation > ----- Original Message ----- > From: Priscilla Sharp <[email protected]> > To: <[email protected]> > Sent: Saturday, June 03, 2000 10:08 AM > Subject: Re: [SHARP-L] Sharps of Penna. > > > We are forgetting also that many of the PA German Schaup/Schaub and Dutch > > and German Scharf/Scharp families changed their name/spelling to Sharp. > > Many of them are known to have migrated south from PA to NC and elsewhere. > > I wouldn't rule them out, either. > > > > Also, there was a serious rift in the NJ Quaker communities in the > > mid-1700s about the owning of slaves (yes, believe it or not, there were > > Quakers who were slaveholders), and entire families packed up and moved > > south where there was less pressure to give up their slaves. > > > > Priscilla > > > > > > ==== SHARP Mailing List ==== > > > > > > ==== SHARP Mailing List ====

"By the early eighteenth century there were Quaker planters in the West Indies and Quaker slave merchants in London, Philadelphia, and Newport, Rhode Island. Partly because of the Friends' testimony against war, slaveholding occasioned moral tensions that were less common among other denominations. For social critics within the sect, the wealthy masters and slave-trading merchants presented a flagrant symbol of worldly compromise and an ideal target for attack. For a variety of reasons, the Seven Years' War (1756-1763) brought a spiritual crisis for the Society of Friends, resulting in much soul-searching, attempts at self-purification, and a final commitment to disengage themselves collectively from the Atlantic slave system." ref: David Brion Davis, "The Problem of Slavery", Introduction to Oxford Press' An Historical Guide to World Slavery, ed. Drescher and Engerman. [The Gilder Lehrman Center for the Study of Slavery, Resistance and Abolition, http://www.yale.edu/glc/ ] -- Malcolm Schalick Sharp http://sharp.rootsweb.com -- > > ----- Original Message ----- > > From: Priscilla Sharp <[email protected]> > > To: <[email protected]> > > Sent: Saturday, June 03, 2000 10:08 AM > > Subject: Re: [SHARP-L] Sharps of Penna. > > > > > We are forgetting also that many of the PA German Schaup/Schaub and Dutch > > > and German Scharf/Scharp families changed their name/spelling to Sharp. > > > Many of them are known to have migrated south from PA to NC and elsewhere. > > > I wouldn't rule them out, either. > > > > > > Also, there was a serious rift in the NJ Quaker communities in the > > > mid-1700s about the owning of slaves (yes, believe it or not, there were > > > Quakers who were slaveholders), and entire families packed up and moved > > > south where there was less pressure to give up their slaves. > > > > > > Priscilla